SEO 101 - Increasing Traffic Through Contents

by Isabel Rodrigues

Today, there is one driving force that moves the cyberspace and that is information. Information is necessary especially in today’s fast pacing world. As a necessity, the worldwide web is designed to access information to a wide variety of audience around the world.

Since information has become a necessity, it has also become a good source of doing in today’s business. One way of this is through search engine optimization. Google and other search engine websites have crawlers with them to get the keywords of the website. These keywords are stored in their database. When a user will search a certain topic, the engine will try to sort on websites containing the keywords. Search results will give the searcher the link of the website that contains the keywords.

Through keywords, websites will be visited by number of web surfers around the world. The advantage of getting more traffic on a website is that more advertisement will surely find its exposure on the heavily visited site. This is where the business of search engine optimization or SEO will take place.

The most important thing a website should have is its content. It is the bread and butter of the site. The contents are what make audiences around the world get interested in what one has to offer. While content can be very important, there are also other things that must be done in order for your website to be have its substantial share of the millions of audience around the world.

It must be taken into consideration that SEO is the vehicle of the audience to the site and the site’s vehicle to the audience are the ways in which SEO will catch the website.

Here are some few steps to make an SEO friendly website

1.Prepare for the Meta Tags

One has to be familiar with the basics of HTML to know what tag is. Meta tags are HTML tags which can be found in the source code of an HTML file or simply put it the website source code. Meta tag contains necessary information of the website which cannot be found in the interface page of the website. These are hidden tags that can only be determined by the SEO crawlers.

In this way, one has to prepare the meta tags by putting on it the information about the website, and at the same time getting to know the keywords. Knowing the keywords is like putting a webmaster in the shoes of the searchers. In this way, one can identify what keyword one has to type in the search engine.

2.Creating Website Portals with Lots of Keywords

Website portals are the entry point of every surfer to a certain website. One has to stuff the necessary keywords in the portal so that SEO’s crawler can readily attract on it.

However, extra care must also be done to avoid being blacklisted by the SEO’s. SEO crawlers, especially the most sophisticated one, can detect if there is spamming or too much keyword on the portal. Keywords should not only be substantiated with content, it must also be used wisely along the content. Otherwise, the website will totally be unknown because it is in the blacklist.

3.Consider Submitting Directories to a Search Engine Site

One way of connecting to search engines is not to wait for the crawlers to crawl on the website. Establishing direct contact to the Search Engine site can be done by submitting directories. However, the website must be prepared before submission of directories. It must get rid of dead links or other spamming agent which can be very harmful in search engine ranking of a website.

Directory submission is usually being reviewed manually by the people manning the search engine. In this way, search engines can determine if the website is indeed substantially stuffed.

4.Maintain the URL

One way of maintaining the traffic is to keep the URL. URL is very important for websites especially if one is only dependent on SEO crawlers. Having a dead URL is not only damaging to the website’s ranking, it will also lose the interest of web surfers.

Avoiding any forms of symbols and other non alphanumeric is one way of building a good URL. Symbols and non-alphanumeric characters are usually ignored by the SEO crawlers. In this way, the website will not be overlooked.

Knowing how an SEO works is an advantage for a webmaster. In this way, he is not only increasing the traffic of web surfers, he is also catching some advertisement on his website.

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